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அம்மைக் குத்தல்

[ Ammaikkuththal]

a. பாலெடுத்துக் குத்தல்.

b. To inoculate with the cow-pox matter taken from the calf in order to ward off the attack of small-pox or at least mitigate its virility or severity – Vaccinate. (Inoculation for small – pox was known to the Hindus from a very early age. Cowherds and shepherds used to collect and preserve the dry scabs and pustules and a little of this would be placed on the forearm and then the skin punctured, with a needle, by this a certain amount of immunity from the attack of small-pox was secured by them).